Archive for December, 2009

Banned Passwords on Twitter

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

TechCrunch has a list of passwords that can’t even be used with Twitter. Using these generic easy to guess passwords is an invitation to being hacked. That’s why we recommend you always use a stronger password.

It’s easy to write a brute force attack script that will simply try the most popular passwords, that’s why websites have had to come up with countermeasures such as this.

So use a password generator that gives you a secure and memorable password that isn’t banned.